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The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews
It has long been claimed that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Did they deny refuge to those fleeing Hitler's death machine? Why did they fail...
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic murder of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. An understanding of the historical circumstances that fed the Holocaust...
Defying Evil: How the Italian Army Saved Croatian Jews During the
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The fascinating World War II story of the techniques used by the Italian Army to thwart the operations of the Nazi-allied Croatian government to send Jews to the holocaust. The...
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963
SUNDAY TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR and FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL AND THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Richard...
Crew: The story of the men who flew RAAF Lancaster J for Jig
On the evening of 24 February 1944, RAAF Lancaster bomber J for Jig took off from an airfield in Lincolnshire. On board was a crew of seven young men-five Australians,...
Wimbledon, Merton & Morden at War 1939-45
More than 350 bombs fell on Wimbledon during the Second World War, killing 150 residents and injuring a further 1,071. Around 12,000 houses were damaged and 810 destroyed. Notable people...
Glasgow at War 1939 - 1945
Scotland was of grave strategic importance during the war because of its geographical position and Glasgow was the location of a significant number of important military and civil organisations as...
Surviving Hitler: Choices, Corruption and Compromise in the Third
There are some historians who argue that the Gestapo regime was a reign of terror that forced German citizens and others to collaborate with the Nazi rulers. Other historians argue...
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
This title provides a detailed account of the issues and events which led to the Holocaust, and discusses the historiographical interpretations surrounding that event. The book examines anti-Semitism in Europe...
Shared Sorrows: A Gypsy Family Remembers the Holocaust
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On morning after Kristalnacht Toby Sonneman's father walked through broken glass to collect the visa from the US consulate in Stuttgart which saved him from the fate suffered by other...
Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler
Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum. His name was Adolf Hitler.From 1933, these...
Write Home For Me: A Red Cross Woman in Vietnam
An intimate portrait of tragedy, hope and humour in a war zone. An intimate portrait of tragedy, hope and humour in a war zone. Working as a journalist at the...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine - As heard
It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of...
The Making of an SS Killer: The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert,
In this pioneering biography of a frontline Holocaust perpetrator, Alex J. Kay uncovers the life of SS Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Filbert, responsible as the first head of SS-Einsatzkommando 9, a...
A Place to Remember: A History of the Shrine of Remembrance
On the 11th of November 1934 over 300,000 people gathered on the slopes of Melbourne's Domain to witness the dedication of the Shrine. It was the largest state war memorial...
Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of
Anzac and Empire is the remarkable story of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians, and the man central to how Australia planned for,...
Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five
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"A fascinating and well-written account of a little-known chapter that was crucial to the course of World War II and to America's global leadership." -Henry A. Kissinger In the dark...
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES 'A hugely important book ... elegantly written and persuasively...
One Child's War
During the blitz on London in 1941, a sailor on leave couldn't wait to get back to his ship. "At least there," he said, "you can fire back at an...
Meeting at Potsdam
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Charles Mee's astute portrayals of Stalin, Truman and Churchill reveal the egos and intrigues at play in Potsdam in 1945, where the groundwork for the Cold War was laid. [history][political]...
The Venlo Sting: MI6's Deadly Fiasco
On 9 November 1939, two unsuspecting British agents of the Special Intelligence Services walked into a trap set by German Spymaster Reinhard Heydrich. Believing that they were meeting a dissident...
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963
National Serviceis a serious - if often very entertaining - attempt to get to grips with an extraordinary institution, which now seems as remote as the British Empire itself. With...
FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved The Way For The Invasion Of
Nineteen months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR sent twelve "vice consuls" to Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia on a secret mission. Their objective? To prepare the groundwork for what...
Atrocities, Diamonds and Diplomacy
In early 1997 Peter Penfold, arrived in Sierra Leone as the British High Commissioner. This fascinating book describes not just his eventful three year tour but the background and subsequent...
Windows on the War
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During World War II in Europe, the author's Field Artillery Forward Observer's telescope provided a unique view of American battles from Normandy to final victory in Germany.
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Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon! "A thrilling action ride of a book" ( The New York Times Book Review )--the New...
D-Day Normandy: The Story and Photographs
Features more than four hundred American, Allied, and German photographs that present the dramatic events of the invasion from both sides.
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World
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"Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front." -- Eleanor Roosevelt,...
Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
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To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. Endgame 1945 highlights the gripping personal stories of nine men and women,...
Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero
With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon...
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II
How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...
American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War...
American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War...
The Falklands War: An Imperial History
Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival...
Sandstealers
Ever wondered what it is like to work in a war zone? `We live more in one year than most people do in a lifetime,' is Danny Lowenstein's simple retort....
Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe - A NEW YORK TIMES
Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering....
Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe - A NEW YORK TIMES
Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering....
My Father the Spy: A Family History of the CIA, the Cold War, and the
As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief...
Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
This "historical page-turner of the highest order" ( The Wall Street Journal ) tells the chilling, little-known story of an American-born Soviet spy in the atom bomb project during World...
The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and Australian troops lifted when they were told that...
South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer
A brilliant, eye-opening espionage thriller by a former special forces officer 'now at the forefront of spy writing' 'The thinking person's John le Carre' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to...